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Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.9

NEW FEATURES

Updated Google Fonts database.

BUG FIXES

Updated the linking on Windows for upcoming version of Rtools, thanks to Tomas Kalibera.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.8

BUG FIXES

font_add() now gives a warning if the parameters are not length-one vectors.
C functions are now called using registered native symbols.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.7

NEW FEATURES

Updated Google Fonts database.

BUG FIXES

Updated the documentation for font_add_google().
Fixed the bug that db_cache = FALSE is not effective in the second call of font_add_google().

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.6

BUG FIXES

Supported UCRT on Windows, thanks to Tomas Kalibera and Uwe Ligges.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.5

BUG FIXES

Fixed the configure script, thanks to Prof. Brian Ripley.
Fixed compiler warnings.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.4

NEW FEATURES

Updated Google Fonts database.

BUG FIXES

Added a new search path in the configure script (#17).

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.3

BUG FIXES

Fixed a string comparison issue in the configure script (#14).

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.2

NEW FEATURES

Added a new system font path for macOS, suggested by Athanasia Mowinckel (#13).
Updated Google Fonts database.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.1

NEW FEATURES

Updated Google Fonts database.

BUG FIXES

Updated the download method for installation on Windows.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8

NEW FEATURES

Now font_files() can report more information of the fonts, for example the family name, font face, version, and PostScript font name, suggested by pull request #7 of the binb package.
Updated Google Fonts database.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.7.3

NEW FEATURES

Added function font_info_google() to retrieve metadata of Google Fonts (#7), thanks to @camille-s.
Added an argument db_cache to font_info_google(), font_families_google(), and font_add_google() to force using Google Fonts API to retrieve font metadata, suggested by issue #23 of the showtext package.
Updated Google Fonts database.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.7.2

NEW FEATURES

Updated Google Fonts database.

BUG FIXES

Fixed installation problems on Windows.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.7.1

BUG FIXES

Fixed the use of one deprecated function.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.7

API CHANGES

All previous API functions now have aliases replacing the dots with underscores in the function names, for example font_add() is equivalent to font.add().
The "underscore" naming is preferred, and the "dot" version will be gradually deprecated.

NEW FEATURES

Added a "handle" parameter to font_add_google() in order to support proxies (#4), thanks to @Sdurier.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.6

NEW FEATURES

Updated the included Liberation fonts to version 1.07.4.
Updated Google Fonts database.
sysfonts now uses the curl package to fetch Google Fonts files.
font.add() now supports tilde path expansion, for example font.add("xkcd", "~/xkcd.ttf") (#1), thanks to @r2evans.

BUG FIXES

Added a 'cleanup' script per CRAN policies.
Registered native routines per CRAN policies.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.5

BUG FIXES

More robust way to fetch font list.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.4

BUG FIXES

Fixed a problem reported by Philippe Massicotte involving incomplete downloading of font files.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.3

NEW FEATURES

No longer prints message at start-up.
Now has faster loading of Google Fonts list.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.2

NEW FEATURES

sysfonts can now add fonts from Google Fonts (https://fonts.google.com/).

Changes in sysfonts version 0.1

NEW FEATURES

Initial release.